Falling back in love with poker

Pud's Poker Progress / Matthew Pitt / 23 February 2009 / 3

Over the past couple of months, my love for poker has dwindled away, but after an amazing poker-filled weekend, my love for poker has returned and has a renewed vigour.

I had previously mentioned I had lost focus from my game due to trying to play how everyone else says I should and by starting silly little challenges so on Friday I decided to play in a €10 MTT that had an extra €500 added to the prize pool with a €500 bounty for knocking out Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliot. Over all there were 190 runners, meaning the top 18 were paid and a nice, healthy €577 FTW.

Once my table opened, I was happy to see Devilfish in my big blind, meaning I was in with a chance of stacking him and winning the €500 bounty. I played pretty tight, only because I was receiving no cards at all, and managed to steal the 'fish's blind, my claim to fame.

Then came this hand, where I massively sucked out on him. It was pure luck but in my defence I had started too really loosen up at this stage and had open-raised in late position at least five times in the last six orbits, plus I'd been drinking Red Stripe too! Anyway, Devilfish berated me for my bad play but I managed to make him laugh and calm down when I told him that is why I play €10 games and he travels the world!

Some will say justice was served when I almost busted him out of the tournament but someone hit their gutshot on the river to claim the pot and bounty, despite me being an almost 75% favourite on the turn. I was gutted as this not only damaged my stack but also took my chance of a much needed bankroll and life-roll boost. To cut a long story short, the Poker Gods (amen) decided to reward me by letting me run like Usain Bolt and come third for a very welcomed €198. Ship it! Although "winning" an online tournament is great for your confidence, it was some live poker I played over the weekend that has made me want to get back to the online tables and grind away and make some serious money!

Over the weekend I was busy representing Raise The River in the UK Forum Team Challenge, hosted by the Newcastle Poker Forum at the Grosvenor Casino in Newcastle. I had an absolutely brilliant time mixing with my Raise The River team-mates and some fellow bloggers, but seeing as I am running out of space here, I will do a trip report in my next entry.

As always, thanks for reading and best of luck at the tables.

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teamdobb | 23 February 2009

Glad we were able to help ignite ya flame.
Snake_eyes | 24 February 2009

Great weekend Pud, sorry about the booze fueled power snoring lol
Top15Poker01 | 26 February 2009

We like it because people don't see us running round the room when we have got an excellent hand or throwing the mouse at the wall when losing.